Yellena grew up and attended art school in Sarajevo. At the age of 18 she moved to the U.S. After gaining her BA in painting and graphic design at UCF, she eventually made her way to the Oregon Coast.
Preferring pens, inks, markers and acrylics, she combines complex abstract forms into dazzling images which take on lives of their own. Her colorful arrangements of organic shapes and tangled lines are at once floral and alien, organic and sci-fi. Each intimate world she creates seems to posses its own ethos and its own special ability to
radiate emotion.
Now residing in Portland, OR, Yellena has participated in shows around the U.S., as well as overseas, including: solo exhibitions at Giant Robot (San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA), the Here Gallery (Bristol, UK), the Grassy Knoll (Portland, OR) and more. She also has done illustration work for Anthropologie, Nike, K2 Snowboards and many others.
She is currently working on new pieces for a show this summer at the ROJO® Artspace Gallery in Barcelona.
